Micro macrocosm8/25/2023 The view of the beautiful landscape on the coast immediately reminds us of all the riches of nature that our planet Earth has given us.Ī look into the beautiful, endless blue sky tosses us into the world of the macrocosm, in which we are so small, and which we would like to find out so much about. If we dive in, we don’t know which way to go, where to start researching. I am neither well equipped nor mentally prepared for the journey into the unknown, and yet unexpectedly I can picture a man floating calmly on the surface of the sea, staring at the sky and the surroundings. Beneath him is the micro world, the blue sea, unexplored to a large extent with all the beauty of the flora and the fauna and the interesting world of microorganisms that it provides. So let’s all, together, embark on an interesting journey of exploring the micro and macro worlds, at the center of which is man, as a human being. ![]() ![]() If we combine this with the skin, the real physical armor of our body, which is far from being inert and lazy, and then the brain with all its unimagined potentials that harmonizes our emotional and sensory world with the environment, we get a man, who is so small compared to the Universe (which is by definition the infinite space that surrounds us), and yet so great for us in our world of the microcosm. This invisible, and yet very dynamic, physical-anatomical border of the human microcosm and the outer macrocosm is represented by the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tract. And what about consciousness, the brain, and all those psychic and mental events that intertwine between the outside world and our cerebral gyri.Īll in all, man represents the central point, a human being as the most perfect figure of the Universe known to us so far. The eye, such a small organ with incredible properties that conjures up all the beauty of the world around us. Some might think of the respiratory tract, because through it we breathe in the outside air and get the much-needed oxygen that our body needs for various types of metabolic processes, including the most important one – oxidation, which takes place in it. Some might say that it is the skin, which represents the human protective layer against all the negative physical influences of the external environment. ( obsolete ) The human body a person.When I became an internist and gastroenterologist, I had no idea that my future specialization in gastroenterology would become an abstract synonym for what had always interested me, and for what I had a hard time finding answers to, and that would be to find out where exactly is that invisible boundary where the inner world of man connects with the environment.On the other hand, the whole idea of man as a microcosm was questioned by those who were not in sympathy with the Christian humanists. ![]() The Christian humanists were emphatic in their demand that a man who wishes to understand himself must realize that he is a little world that reflects on a smaller scale the larger world of the universe. 1972, Rolf Soellner, Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-Knowledge, Chapter 3: Microcosm and Macrocosm: Framing The Picture of Man, page 43:.Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.WOTD – 11 October 2011 Etymology įrom French microcosme, from Latin microcosmus, from Ancient Greek μικρός ( mikrós, “ small ” ) + κόσμος ( kósmos, “ universe, order ” ) micro- + -cosm.
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